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M. P. BRAY.

POCKET FOR GARMENTS.

No. 328,379. Patented Oct. 13, 1885.

7 i. '14 I 61! f I ('6 I v UNITED STATES MORRIS P. BRAY, OF ANSONIA,CONN,

ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

TO THE GODFREY SEAMLESS POCKET COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASS.

POCKET FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,379 dated October13, 1885.

Application filed November 10, 1884. Serial No. 147,482.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, of Ansonia, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inPockets for Garments; and I do hereby declare the following, when takenin connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, a face view of so much of a woven strip as to show twopockets, 6 f indicating the diagonal line upon which the strip is cut;Fig. 2, a transverse section on line w m; Fig. 3, a transverse sectionon line 2 2; Fig. 4, a face View of the pockets detached; Fig. 5, thesame as prepared for attachment to the garment; Fig. 6, a modificationin the weaving of the intermediate or extension portion of the pocket.

This invention relates to an improvementin that class of pockets whichare woven complete in a continuous tubular strip, the two thicknessesbeing connected at intervals, upon which connected portions the strip iscut, the said solid or connected portions forming the bottom of thepocket, and is an improvement upon the invention for which LettersPatent of the United States were granted to me August 5, 1884, No.303,211. In that patent the invention is adapted to that class ofgarments in which the pocket mouth or opening is transverse orhorizontal, and specially for gentlemens garments.

The object of my present invention is the construction of a pocketadapted to ladies dresses. Such pockets require to be attached to thewaistband of the garment and extend down to a convenient position forthe pocketopening; hence there must be considerable length to the pocketabove the opening; and my invention consists in a pocket or series ofpockets woven in a continuous strip of tubular shape or doublethickness, the two thicknesses united at certain intervals to form solidportions, through which solid portions the strip may be cut, and suchsolid portion forming the bottom of the pocket, with an intermediateconnected or solid portion, through which the strip may be cutdiagonally, the open part between the said diagonally-cut solid por- (Nomodel.)

tion and the bottom solid portion'forming the pocket proper, thediagonally-cut solid portion forming the extension of the pocket forattachment to the waistband, the pocket portion woven with an openlongitudinal slit at the end of the pocket next the said diagonallycutsolid portion, and as more fully hereinafter described.

I weave the strip of tubular form, as in my previous patent. The twothicknesses of the strip are connected or woven solid at intervals, say,as at a a, Fig. 1. These connected intervals are of sufficient length topermit the strip to be cut centrally through them, and each part formsthe bottom of a pocket.

Midway between the solid portions (1 a the two thicknesses are connectedfor a considerable distance, as at b, the length of this solid orconnected portion 12 being sutlicient to extend from the pocket-openingup to the waistband of the dress. The tubular woven portions A B at eachend of this solid portion b form the pockets. At or near one edge a lowgitudinal slit, d, is left in one thickness in the process of weaving,to form the pocket-opening with selvage edges. This completes the stripas an article of manufacture and ready for the market.

The pocketsareseparateddiagonally through the solid portion 12, as uponthe line of, the part 6 becoming the extension or attaching portion ofthe pocket A, and the part D the extension or attaching portion of thepocket B. A single pocket, A, is shown detached in Fig. 4.

The slit d at the upper and lower end, when formed a little inside ofone edge, is cut outward to that edge, as at g h, and so as to be turnedout and form a projecting flap, i, by which one edge of the pocket maybe attached to the pocket-opening, and the other edge, I, of the slitattached to the other edge of the pocket-opening. In this condition thepocket is ready for attachment to the garment.

Instead of weaving the entire portion 1) solid, it need only be wovensolid 0n the diagonal line, as indicated in Fig. 6, the out being madethrough that diagonal solid portion, as from e to f.

1. As an article of manufacture, a series of bottom edge closed in theprocess of weaving and an extension from the upper end of the pocketalso woven solid, the pocket proper having a longitudinal selvage-edgeopening, (I, left therein in the process of weaving, substantially asdescribed.

IMORRIS P. BRAY.

Witnesses:

J 0s. 0. EARLE, J H. SHUMWAY.

